August Meeting Minutes
August 12, 2025, Officer’s Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Deanna S, Katie M, Nancy C, Bill H Theresa H,Kelly F
1. Opening
1. Welcome
2. Approval of May 2025 minutes (unanimous)
II. Officer Reports see page 2
III. Old Business Since we still need to have a proxy for the August 22 Toastmasters International meeting the officer's discussed possibilities. It was felt that at our club level, we didn’t feel qualified enough to choose officers for International. It was moved and 2nd that we designate the District 2 Director, Anu Jokinen as our proxy. Theresa will do this by 8/15/202.
IV. New Business
Club Speaking Competition Speech A Thon. Last year, since we didn’t have a club level competition, it was suggested that we kick start PSNW club competition. Rather than calling it a competition we will call it a Speech A Thon, to make it less intimidating. We will try and drive participation in a fun and less threatening way. The “winning” Speech A Thon competitor from our club, will move on to the Area Competition. The Area Competition will be held during the month of February 2026. Since speeches are in person, we will hold our Speech A Thon Dec 2,2025 at our in-person meeting. Hopefully, being between the big holidays, we can promote and drive participation. The speech subjects are broad and can be a pathways level or not. The main theme, however, is to do an inspirational speech
Officer’s
Reports VP
Education/ Webmaster: Nancy
Webmaster:
Nothing new VPE: We got our first point on the new DPR. We are on our
way.D2 reported to TI that 4 of us have been trained. This
Could be a lag in reporting. Our folks are being very good about
logging speeches.
VP Membership:
Maria
New
Members 0
Inquiries 3
Mtg
Visitors 2
Member removals 0
VP
Public Relations: Kelly
Things
are moving along well with PR. Officer
Training
I trained VPPR group. yesterday for the district and completed the
survey. So, it counts toward my officer training. The session was
recorded, and I will post it to our You Tube Channel.
•
Officer Training: I trained VPPR yesterday for the district and
completed
the survey, so it counts toward my
officer training. The session was
recorded,
and I will post it to our YouTube channel.
•
Future Learning Minute Suggestion: Warren recently participated in
a
panel project at his other club, Willow
Voices, where I was a panelist. I
encourage
our members to visit the TLI site and use the “Find a
Club”
feature to locate other clubs in their
area. Consider offering to give a guest
speech—it’s
an excellent way to level up your speaking skills by
receiving
feedback from different evaluators
and audiences.
• Social Media Update:
o
Facebook: 397 likes • 426 followers
o
YouTube: 47 subscribers • 378 videos
Treasurer:
Deanna
1. I will send out renewal notices for
Oct ‘25 – March ‘26 Toastmasters term in
early
Sept. 2. The PSNW bank account balance is $1190.93 on
8/12/25.
Secretary/Scribe: Bill
I
have nothing new to report from the scribe department.
Sergeant
at Arms: Katie
Nothing to report from the
realm of Sgt at Arms except that all is well
President:
Theresa
We still need a volunteer to represent
our club at the annual business meeting
on
August 22. Please let me know if you are interested.
Thank
you for all of your support as I take on this new position.
V. Announcements
VI. Adjourn Katie made a motion to adjourn, Deanna seconded.
